Drive to Fort Sill, OK - 05 JUL 2010

Last week I was at Fort Leonard Wood, MO. I didn't have a camera with me, so I went to a local pawn shop and purchased a small Kodak...for twenty dollars, I'm calling it a disposable. Then, I went round the Fort taking pics; however when I got home, I found the memory card would not download. I purchased a new card (with three times the memory) from Big Lots for ten dollars. Now my $30 disposable camera is my road show challenge: produce interesting shots with inferior equipment. This week's assignment, I flew to Oklahoma City and took an hour plus drive, south to Lawton. I wanted to see the country side not the interstate, so I choose to take the back roads. I was not disappointed. With no signage to tell me what I had found, these interesting creatures were standing in a field, behind a locked fence:

As I was leaving, this 4 inch grasshopper jumped on my windshield.

Amazingly, it was able to hold on until I reached 67 miles per hour.I also found an interesting mailbox.

Roadrunner - 4 APR 2008

The only stop we made today was to check out the Roadrunner art outside of Las Cruces. 

This is what it looks like from Interstate 10. It’s located at a rest stop. 

And it’s made of recycled material.

The bird’s breast is made of tennis shoes. 

And the eyeball is a car headlight. 

There’s a whole lot of nothing to see between Las Cruces and Yuma…some beautiful Saguaro cactus but no place to pull over and photograph them.